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Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Greek bank stocks are on the rise in anticipation of midweek earnings reports. “… According to capital.gr, EU authorities may examine further sector consolidation and/or cross border acquisitions in case Greek banks fail to recover from their current ...

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras referred to the historic bonds between Greece and Georgia while welcoming Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili at the Maximos Mansion on Tuesday. The Georgian Prime Minister said that Greece is a "cradle of culture ...

A 25-year-old man, with his political asylum documents still on him, was found hanged near a port in Athens. Greek media described as a Syrian refugee, according to Telesurtv.net. More than 60,000 refugees and migrants have gone to Greece, and ended up ...

A team of Greek medical researchers has discovered a substance that successfully treated laboratory mice suffering from the equivalent of human Parkinson's Disease, creating new hope of an eventual cure for humans. Their findings were published in the ...

Addressing the conference held by the Parliamentary Budget Office, Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras warned of the consequences of a further delay in the second review conclusion. Mr. Stournaras stated that by achieving 2% primary surplus in the ...

Greece is seeing a 70 percent increase in bookings made by travellers from Germany, the German daily newspaper Die Welt said on Monday. In an article titled “Greece Ahead of a Record Summer Season”, Die Welt noted that although the Balearic Islands are ...

_[U.S. President Donald Trump hosts a Greek Independence Day celebration at the East room of the White House in Washington, U.S. March 24, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria]WELCOME TO FINANCE INSIDER, BUSINESS INSIDER'S SUMMARY OF THE TOP STORIES OF THE PAST 24 HOURS._ Around midday on March 23, the news that a once vaunted hedge fund would close started rippling through New York's hedge fund community. Eton Park Capital Management, a $7 billion hedge fund run by former Goldman Sachs wunderkind Eric Mindich, announced it would shutter. In several ways, Eton Park's rise and closure symbolize a broader journey for the hedge fund industry. With some of the biggest hedge funds around closing, Business Insider took a look at what it takes to launch one today. Elsewhere in finance news, an increasing number of Americans have stopped paying their car loans, and Wall Street is starting to worry. And Goldman Sachs just named a new head of technology in EMEA. President Trump is making huge changes to his economic plans after the "Trumpcare" defeat. The Dow Jones industrial average closed in negative territory for the eighth day in a row on Monday, the first such losing streak since the European debt crisis was at its peak. The Trump rally's "great unwind" might just be getting started, according to David Rosenberg at Gluskin Sheff. And here's where America wants Trump to focus his efforts, according to Legg Mason. In more positive news, a gauge of US home prices rose to a 31-month high in January. And US consumer confidence exploded to the highest level since 2000. Elsewhere, GM is jumping as it faces off with David Einhorn over a plan to split its stock in to two classes. American Airlines is buying a $200 million chunk of China's largest airline. And the former CEO of Valeant is suing the embattled drug company for not paying him more than 3 million shares. In deal news, tech startup Yext priced its IPO at $8 to $10 a share. Chinese tech giant Tencent has taken a 5% stake in Tesla. And a Chinese conglomerate is in talks to buy a controlling stake in Forbes. In media news, Wall Street Journal staffers signed a letter criticizing the control white men have over the newsroom. Lastly, you could soon own a 104-metre-long private mega-yacht complete with a helipad, glass elevator, cinema, and beach club — but it'll cost you £160 million ($200 million). _HERE ARE THE TOP WALL STREET HEADLINES FROM THE PAST 24 HOURS._ YUM CEO: MACHINES COULD "RUN THE WORLD" BY THE MID TO LATE 2020S - Greg Creed, the CEO of Yum Brands, the owner of KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell, spoke about how he sees technological innovation developing over the next decade or two, and how his industry has already seen changes. THE MOVIE BUSINESS IS IN BIG TROUBLE, AND STUDIOS ARE SCRAMBLING TO FIGURE OUT THE FUTURE - Anyone in the movie business who tells you they’re not scared stiff about the future is probably lying. HOW ONE ANALYST THINKS APPLE COULD HIT $200 - UBS analyst Steven Milunovich believes Apple might be able to hit a $200 stock price if everything goes right for the company over the next few years. A TOP GOLDMAN SACHS DEALMAKER SAYS SHE LEARNED A MAJOR CAREER LESSON EATING IN A CAFETERIA IN MILAN - It's no secret that women are often treated differently in the workplace. And that is especially the case in more male-dominated fields such as financial services. EMIRATES PRESIDENT: WE DON'T KNOW IF THE US LAPTOP BAN WILL HURT BUSINESS — BUT HERE'S HOW THINGS WENT THIS WEEKEND - Emirates Airline won't be able to gauge the financial effects of the US government's ban on laptops on flights from the Middle East until May, but the rollout of the policy last weekend was relatively smooth, its president, Sir Tim Clark, said in an interview with Business Insider. JOHNSON & JOHNSON JUST LAUNCHED A $100,000 BURNOUT PREVENTION BOOTCAMP FOR CEOS - If you're going by the Harvard Business Review, executive burnout has been a problem for nearly 40 years. THE FDA JUST APPROVED A NEW DRUG TO TREAT ECZEMA THAT COSTS $37,000 A YEAR - The FDA on Tuesday approved Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi's Dupixent for treatment of moderate to severe atopic dermatitis, a product widely seen as the most important future growth driver for the two companies. THIEVES BROKE INTO A GERMAN MUSEUM AND STOLE A MASSIVE $4.5 MILLION GOLD COIN - Thieves broke into the German capital's Bode Museum before dawn Monday and made off with a massive 100-kilogram (221-pound) gold coin worth millions of dollars, police said. 22 CLOTHING ITEMS EVERY MAN SHOULD OWN BEFORE HE TURNS 30 - When a man turns 30, he turns around and looks back at his life. FASHION MOGUL CHRIS BURCH BUILT A FIVE-STAR RESORT ON A REMOTE INDONESIAN ISLAND — AND IT'S OFFICIALLY THE BEST IN THE WORLD - After founding or cofounding several internationally known retail brands — C. Wonder and Tory Burch — and investing in several others, Chris Burch is taking his entrepreneurial eye to a new industry: hospitality. SEE ALSO: THE 27 MOST IMPORTANT FINANCE BOOKS EVER WRITTEN Join the conversation about this story »

The self-proclaimed billionaire and now fugitive Artemis Sorras has been charged with fraud and running a criminal organization. The office of prosecutor in Athens published a long list of charges against Artemis Sorras and seven of his close associates on Tuesday. The list of charges reportedly contain “half of the crimes including in the Greek … The post New charges against Sorras: Leader of criminal organization, fraud, money laundering and others appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.

Black Lion tells the true story of Carlos Mavroleon, a Harvard educated heir to an English/Greek shipping empire, who left his high-flying life as a Wall Street trader to become a world-renowned war reporter. Mavroelon was known for his daring and ability ...

By Vasilis Papoutsis LOS ANGELES, CA – Dr. Alain Touwaide is a historian of Greek Medicine and has been teaching a course of Greek Medicine […] The post Dr. Alain Touwaide’s Census of Greek Medical Manuscripts appeared first on The National Herald.

By Dimitra Pontoporou YELLOW It is not difficult to learn the Greek adjectives’ endings. Like the article, the adjective agrees in gender, number and case […] The post Our Everyday Greek: Yellow, Κίτρινος, is the Sun and Κίτρινη is the Daisy appeared first on The National Herald.

A corruption magistrate on Tuesday issued a warrant for the arrest of Artemis Sorras, already a fugitive from justice, after a first-instance court public prosecutor charged Sorras and seven of his associates with serious criminal offenses. The case against the self-proclaimed billionaire, who claims to have enough money to pay off Greece’s debt, and the […]

Justice Minister Stavros Kontonis on Tuesday forwarded case files investigating former prime minister Antonis Samaras, as well as Greece’s current governor of the Bank of Greece, Yannis Stournaras, and the Independent Greeks (ANEL) MP Athanasios Papachristopoulos to Parliament, so that it can decide whether the prosecution should proceed. The case concerning Samaras is linked to […]

The Laboratory of Electromagnetic Theory of the Democritus University of Thrace / Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has been selected to join the QB50 European initiative for the launch of a swarm of nano-satellites to investigate the upper ...

… has also animated tensions between Greece and Turkey, and Erdoğan… comments came hours after the Greek defence minister said armed forces … military officers who escaped to Greece after the abortive coup against …

[Blade Runner 2049]Warner Bros. This year apparently hasn't learned a lesson from 2016. Despite relatively low box-office turnout for reboots and sequels in 2016 including "Independence Day: Resurgence," "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2," and "Bad Santa 2," there's a reboot or a sequel coming to theaters pretty much every weekend for the rest of 2017. (Granted, many have been long in development.) Some are more appealing than others, with highly anticipated movies like "Star Wars: The Last Jedi," "Bladerunner 2049," and "Thor: Rangorak" in the mix. Some are getting more puzzled reactions from people online. HERE ARE ALL THE MOVIE REBOOTS AND SEQUELS YOU CAN SEE (OR AVOID) IN 2017: “UNDERWORLD: BLOOD WARS” — ALREADY RELEASED Sony Pictures “XXX: THE RETURN OF XANDER CAGE” — ALREADY RELEASED Paramount “RESIDENT EVIL: THE FINAL CHAPTER” — ALREADY RELEASED Sony Pictures SEE THE REST OF THE STORY AT BUSINESS INSIDER

Two guns and a large number of ammunition were found in a mosque in a village in Xanthi, Northeastern Greece, near the borders to Turkey. The imam has been called by the local prosecutor for explanations. Police and national intelligence service on alert. Police search in the mosque of Iliopetra, Topeiros municipality, took place after … The post Police, Intelligence on alert after weapons, ammunition found in mosque in NE Greece appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.

ATHENS – The newest member of the Coca-Cola family is making its global debut today in Greece. The first-of-its-kind Coca-Cola ‘No Calories and With Sweetener from Stevia Plant’ joins four Coca-Cola choices available to Greek consumers – Coca-Cola ...

Austria will seek an exemption from having to accept more asylum-seekers under an EU relocation system, it said on Tuesday, arguing that it has already taken in its fair share during Europe’s migration crisis. The move is a new blow to the system that would cover only a fraction of migrant arrivals to the European Union and that has barely been implemented because of opposition led by Eastern European countries including Poland and Hungary. It also coincides with a tightening of security and immigration rules by the centrist coalition government in Austria, where a wave of arrivals that began in 2015 helped fuel a rise in support for the far-right Freedom Party, which still leads in opinion polls. “We believe an exception is necessary for Austria for having already fulfilled its obligation. We will discuss that with the European Commission,” Chancellor Christian Kern told reporters after a weekly cabinet meeting. “We will send a letter as quickly as possible and then begin discussions.” Fewer than 14,500 asylum-seekers have been relocated from Greece and Italy, the first EU countries that many refugees and migrants from the Middle East and Africa set foot in, under the two-year EU plan that was supposed to cover 160,000 people and which expires in September. “We are of the opinion ... that the people in question here already sought an asylum application or arrived in Italy or Greece,” Kern said. “We must check whether we have already fulfilled our quota and discharged our obligation.” Austria took in roughly 90,000 asylum seekers in 2015, more than 1 percent of its population. More than a million migrants arrived in Germany that year, most of them having passed through Austria after crossing the Balkans from Greece. Austria has repeatedly called on other EU countries to take their fair share, and has even backed the idea of financial penalties for those that do not. The Commission granted Austria a temporary exception because of the large number of people it had taken in, but that has since expired. “Austria is now expected to fulfill its legal obligation ... to start relocating,” Commission spokeswoman Natasha Bertaud said. The government has been seeking to erode support for the Freedom Party with a series of law-and-order measures and stricter immigration rules. An “integration bill” agreed in cabinet on Tuesday would ban face-veils in public places and oblige unemployed refugees to perform jobs “of public utility” for no pay beyond their normal benefit payments. _(Reporting by Francois Murphy; additional reporting by Waverly Colville in Brussels; Editing by Catherine Evans and Robin Pomeroy)_ -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.

Easy, flavorful, vegetarian and vegan Greek salad with chickpeas and a light Greek salad dressing. I'll be making this hearty salad on meal prep days and for parties all spring and summer long. The kids are off school for spring break this week so I don't ...

BRUSSELS – After saying he had the power to make them do it – but wouldn’t – European Commission Migration chief Dimitris Avramopoulos now has […] The post Avramopoulos Pleads With EU Countries to Take Refugees in Greece appeared first on The National Herald.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Leaders from Central Europe said Tuesday they reject a European Union policy that calls for all member states to receive migrants, […] The post Central Europe Leaders Reject EU Plan to Receive Migrants from Greece appeared first on The National Herald.

A firebrand Greek debt activist, whose followers take an oath of allegiance to the ancient gods, has been charged with fraud and running a criminal organization. A senior state prosecutor filed the charges Tuesday against Artemis Sorras, head of an ...

I am still on a quest to learn French cooking. The recipes are usually simple but with really good ingredients. This latest recipe is a Greek inspired mushroom recipe with French origins. I happened to have an abundance of baby portobello mushrooms ...

ATHENS, March 28 (Xinhua) -- Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras welcomed his Georgian counterpart Giorgi Kvirikashvili in Athens on Tuesday, on a historic day for Georgian citizens as they are now allowed to travel to the Schengen zone without a visa.

An asylum seeker was found hanged in an apparent suicide at Greece’s largest port, shortly after aid agencies warned of mounting desperation among refugees trapped in the country. The 25-year-old Syrian man was carrying refugee application papers ...

Novartis is embroiled in a soap opera in Greece, complete with bribery allegations and a suicide threat. Now the plot is thickening. The country’s chief corruption prosecutor, Eleni Raikou, has resigned—and she’s blaming the Swiss pharma giant’s ...

The Ambassador of Greece to Cairo, Michel Christos Diamisis, said that Egypt is a close partner and a friendly neighboring country to Greece, pointing out that the volume of Greek investments in Egypt is about one billion euros for the last fiscal year.

Nearly 62,000 refugees and migrants are currently stranded in mainland Greece and its islands, thanks to "Fortress Europe" policies. A man believed to be a Syrian refugee was found hanged Monday, close to a port near Athens, Greece, with his asylum ...

… maintains broad cooperation with the Greek air force and has participated … Israel to Cyprus to Crete to mainland Greece, the three countries also … crew from the United States, Greece, Poland, France, Germany, India and …

… crisis continues to bite in Greece but there is one sector … 30 million visitors according to Greek national tourism organisation (GNTO) forecasts … modern offer for tourism in Greece, aimed at a high-level clientele …

“The Balearic Islands are consistently first in the preferences of German tourists. But Greece closes the gap with big steps,” says the online version of German newspaper Die Welt. An article with the title “Greece stands before a record this summer ...

KROQ presents the Sound of Summer Tour with Slightly Stoopid and special guests Iration, J. Boog, and The Movement at the Pacific Amphitheatre July 21st and the Greek Theatre August 24th! Tickets to the Pacific Amphitheatre show go on sale Saturday, April ...

The plan adopted in September 2015 foresaw sharing 160,000 asylum seekers from front-line states Greece and Italy around the EU over two years. But it has resulted in only a fraction being relocated. Austria's quota is 1,953 but it, along with others ...

GREECE– The Greek government recently reached a new agreement with the so-called “troika” of lenders—the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund—on new reforms that are slated to go into effect in 2019.

Preheat oven to 375°. Cut potatoes into wedges and place on a baking sheet, then drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with garlic powder and oregano. Season with salt and pepper and toss until fully coated. Arrange wedges in a single layer, skin side down ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The European Union is clearing a 280 million euro loan from the European Investment Bank to the company that won the tender to upgrade and operate 14 regional Greek airports. European Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas said ...

Add the olive oil to a skillet and heat over medium for one minute. Add the onions and raise the heat to medium-high. Saute the onions for about five minutes or until they begin to soften. Add garlic and saute for an additional minute. Turn off the burner ...

ATHENS – With defiance growing, Greek Premier Alexis Tsipras said any opposition to him from his Radical Left SYRIZA lawmakers or ministers won’t be tolerated. […] The post As Grumbling Grows, Tsipras Warns SYRIZA He Won’t Tolerate Dissent appeared first on The National Herald.

ANKARA – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s seeking of near-dictatorial powers in an April 16 referendum have rattled Greece as well, with fears the two […] The post Erdogan’s Power Grab Raises Fears of Aegean Conflict With Greece appeared first on The National Herald.

NEW YORK – Viacom Inc. announced on Monday the appointment of Greek-American Jim Gianopulos as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Paramount Pictures, effective April […] The post Jim Gianopulos Named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Paramount Pictures appeared first on The National Herald.

ATHENS, March 28 The Greek government told the country's central bank chief to stay out of politics on Tuesday after he urged it to wrap up a long-delayed bailout review. Bank of Greece Chief Yannis Stournaras on Monday warned the delay was creating ...

Europe could be on track to encounter a shock wave up to five times as turbulent as the start of the euro zone debt crisis if French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen was able to secure victory in May, according to a team of UBS analysts. Strategists at ...

A consortium of financial institutions will lend Fraport Greece approximately 1 billion euros for the 40-year concession of 14 airports across the country. The consortium of lenders consists of: Alpha Bank (284.7 million euros), the Black Sea Trade and ...